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FOURTEENTH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA SIXTH REGULAR SESSION, 2007 C.R.

NO.

14-110 A RESOLUTION Thanking the U.S. Embassy in Kolonia, Pohnpei, the Pacific Basin Rotary Club, the Guam Community, the U.S. 374th Airlift Wing at Yokota Air Base in Japan and the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam for the continued Operation Christmas Drop to the remote islands in the Federated States of Micronesia.
1 WHEREAS, Operation Christmas Drop, airdrop of humanitarian 2 gifts by U.S. Air Force to the remote islands in the Federated 3 States of Micronesia, started in 1952 by the U.S. Air Force 54th 4 Weather Reconnaissance Squadron flying over Kapingamarangi, 5 Pohnpei State; and 6 WHEREAS, the U.S. Air Force has performed these Operation 7 Christmas Drops for 54 years, even through typhoons and tsunami 8 relief, and has never missed a single year; and 9 WHEREAS, Operation Christmas Drop is a product of 10 collaborative efforts by the U.S. Air Force at Anderson Air Force 11 Base in Guam and at Yokota Air Force Base in Japan, the Pacific 12 Basin Rotary Club, civilian organizations and members of the Guam 13 Community; and 14 WHEREAS, from December 16 to 19 2006, three U.S. Air Force 15 C-130 delivered to the outlying islands of Chuuk, Pohnpei and Yap 16 about 140 crates of goods containing new or serviceable clothes, 17 fishing and snorkeling equipment, non-battery operated toys and 18 non-perusable foods among other items; and 19 WHEREAS, Christmas 2006 commemorated the 54th year of 20 Operation Christmas Drop in the Micronesian islands making it the CRL NO.
14-114 .

C.R.

NO.
14-110 1 world's longest running humanitarian gift-drop to thousands of 2 residents in the remote islands in the Federated States of 3 Micronesia; now therefore, 4 BE IT RESOLVED by the Fourteenth Congress of the Federated 5 States of Micronesia, Sixth Regular Session, 2007, that the 6 Congress hereby expresses its appreciation to the Pacific Basin 7 Rotary Club, civilian organizations and members of the Guam 8 community, and especially the Anderson Air Force Base in Guam and 9 the Yokota Air Force Base in Japan for ensuring happy holidays for 10 thousands of residents on the remote islands in Federated States 11 of Micronesia; 12 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 13 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 14 of Micronesia, the Governors of Pohnpei, Chuuk and Yap, the 15 Pacific Basin Rotary Club in Guam, the Guam Community, the 16 Anderson Air Force Base in Guam, the Yokota Air Force Base in 17 Japan and the U.S. Embassy in Kolonia Pohnpei.
18 19 Date: 1/18/07 Introduced by: /s/ Dohsis Halbert Dohsis Halbert of 2
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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA FIRST SPECIAL SESSION, 2019 C.R.

NO.

21-13 A RESOLUTION Approving and accepting a non-project grant aid from the Government of Japan in the amount of five hundred million Japanese Yen (¥500,000,000), including all the terms and conditions of the assistance.
1 WHEREAS, following mutual consultations, the Japanese 2 Government agreed to provide five hundred million Japanese Yen 3 (¥500,000,000) to the Government of the Federated States of 4 Micronesia for the purpose of contributing to the promotion of the 5 economic and social development efforts in Micronesia; and 6 WHEREAS, the grant is evidenced by letters exchanged and 7 Agreed Minutes on Procedural Details dated April 22, 2019, between 8 the FSM Department of Foreign Affairs and the Japanese Embassy in 9 Kolonia; and 10 WHEREAS, the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia 11 wishes to express it appreciation to the Government of Japan for 12 the generous grant aid; and 13 WHEREAS, section 210(2) of title 55 of the Code of the 14 Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, requires 15 that for foreign financial assistance to be valid it must be 16 approved by Congress by resolution; now, therefore, 17 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty-First Congress of the Federated 18 States of Micronesia, First Special Session, 2019, that Congress 19 hereby approves and accepts the five hundred million Japanese Yen 20 (¥500,000,000) non-project grant aid from the Government Japan, 21 including all the terms and conditions thereof; and CRL 21-14/PC #21-19 C.R.
NO.

21-13 1 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 2 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 3 of Micronesia, the Secretary of the Department of Finance and 4 Administration, Secretary of the Department of Justice, and the 5 Japanese Embassy in Kolonia.

6 7 Date: 6/13/19 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 2 of 2
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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA EIGHTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2020 C.R.

NO.

21-213 A RESOLUTION Approving and accepting a grant in the amount of $101,451 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, to support and fund the FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs’ Preventive Health and Health Services (PHHS), including all the terms and conditions of the assistance.
1 WHEREAS, on September 10, 2020, the United States Department 2 of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and 3 Prevention, issued a notice of grant award in the amount of 4 $101,451, to fund and support the FSM Department of Health and 5 Social Affairs Preventive Health and Health Services for the 6 budget period from October 1, 2019 to September 30, 2021; and 7 WHEREAS, the purpose of this grant is to support the FSM and 8 its Department of Health and Social Affairs in its efforts towards 9 rape prevention and an establishment of support policies that will 10 help victims of rape and sexual assault offenses; and 11 WHEREAS, this grant will also assist the FSM Department of 12 Health and Social Affairs in its efforts toward reduction health- 13 related mortality in the FSM; and 14 WHEREAS, this is a foreign financial assistance as defined 15 under section 210(1)(b) of title 55 of the Code of the Federated 16 States of Micronesia (Annotated), as amended; and 17 WHEREAS, section 210(2) of title 55 of the Code of the 18 Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, requires 19 that for foreign financial assistance to be valid it must be 20 approved by Congress by resolution, now, therefore, CRL 21-218/PC #21-431 C.R.
NO.
21-213 1 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty-First Congress of the Federated 2 States of Micronesia, Eighth Special Session, 2020, that Congress 3 hereby approves and accepts the $101,451 grant from U.S. 4 Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease 5 Control and Prevention, to fund and support the FSM Department of 6 Health and Social Affairs’ Preventive Health and Health Services 7 (PHHS), including all the terms and conditions thereof; and 8 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 9 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 10 of Micronesia, the Secretary of the Department of Health and 11 Social Affairs, the Secretary of the Department of Finance and 12 Administration, and the Secretary of the Department of Justice.
13 14 Date: 10/27/20 Introduced by: /s/ for Joseph J. Urusemal Florencio S. Harper (by request) 2 of 2
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Written Representation 3 Name: Gan Siok Bin Retired accountant Received: 17 Jan 2018 Title: Malicious spreading of falsehoods Dear Select committee, I am a victim of malicious spreading of online falsehoods defaming me to be a former prostitute and/or mistress.

It started in 2013 with some evil Malaysian posting my name, NRIC and Facebook account stating these falsehoods in a Living in Johor Bahru forum.
Since then malicious people spread these falsehoods of me through the private message in the forum, Facebook and WhatsApp and I have received sexual harrassment in the form of anonymous messages to my Twitter and Quora account, WhatsApp from an Indian in Saudi Arabia with hello and his naked picture, and a few missed phone calls from India that when I returned calls they blocked me or not answered.
I believe the malicious Malaysians in the forum have colluded with my Malaysian neighbours from hell in Johor Bahru to steal my pictures of me walking around the house in my night gown and spread throughout Malaysia, India, Saudi Arabia etc countries resulting in these lewd messages.
Singapore government should start a police unit to help and protect helpless individual citizens like me suffering from international cyberbullying and sexual harrassment due to spreading of online falsehoods to numerous countries.
Now the victim is powerless to do anything against malicious people who spread all these falsehoods through private messages in Facebook, WhatsApp etc that the victim do not even have a copy to sue and unable to stop people from spreading the falsehoods or stolen pictures to worldwide.

Facebook and WhatsApp etc messaging service should be made to be responsible to check against the spreading of such falsehoods and stolen pictures when reported by victim.

1 Thank you.

2
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TWENTIETH CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA SECOND SPECIAL SESSION, 2017 C.R.

NO.
NO.

20-59 A RESOLUTION Approving and accepting a grant from Her Majesty the Queen in the Right of Canada, through the Department of Foreign Affairs, Trade, and Development (DFATD) in the amount of CAD$98,500, to fund and support the FSM’s project entitled: “Strengthening the FSM’s Institutions that Promote Gender Equality and CEDAW Awareness Raising to the Relevant Stakeholders and Partner Agencies in the Federated States of Micronesia”, including all the terms and conditions of the assistance.
1 WHEREAS, Her Majesty’s Government or Government of Canada, 2 and the Government of the Federated States of Micronesia entered 3 into a Grant Agreement in the amount of CAD$98,500 to support and 4 fund the project for Strengthening the FSM’s Institutions that 5 Promote Gender Equality and CEDAW Awareness Raising to the 6 Relevant Stakeholders and Partner Agencies in the FSM; and 7 WHEREAS, the purpose of this project is to establish national 8 mechanisms to ensure the FSM is in compliance with its obligations 9 under the UN Treaty on CEDAW and to provide training and awareness 10 raising on the UN concluding observations of the FSM CEDAW State 11 report to key stakeholders and partners; and 12 WHEREAS, section 210 (2) of title 55 of the Code of the 13 Federated States of Micronesia (Annotated), as amended, requires 14 that for an agreement on foreign financial assistance to be valid 15 it must be approved by Congress by resolution; now, therefore, 16 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twentieth Congress of the Federated 17 States of Micronesia, Second Special Session, 2017, that Congress 18 hereby approves and accepts the grant in the amount of CAD$98,500 CRL 20-62 C.R.
NO.

20-59 1 from Her Majesty’s Government or Government of Canada, to fund the 2 Strengthening the FSM’s Institutions that Promote Gender Equality 3 and CEDAW Awareness Raising to the Relevant Stakeholders and 4 Partner Agencies Project, including all the terms and conditions 5 thereof; and 6 BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this 7 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 8 of Micronesia and the Secretary of the Department of Health and 9 Social Affairs.
10 11 Date: 11/1/17 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 2 of 2
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STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

19-66 RE: C.R.

NO.

19-131/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,355 OCTOBER 02, 2015 The Honorable Wesley W. Simina Speaker, Nineteenth Congress Federated States of Micronesia Second Regular Session, 2015 Dear Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Health and Social Affairs to which was referred C.R.

No.
No.

19-131, entitled: “A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ACCEPTING A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,355 FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, INCLUDING ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ASSISTANCE.”, begs leave to report as follows: The intent and purpose of this resolution are expressed in its title.
Your Committee held a hearing on September 30, 2015, the witnesses present included: the Department of Health and Social Affairs, including the Acting Secretary and his key staff, and the Department of Justice.

This small grant is the fourth quarter award for a nationwide awareness program regarding preventive health services.

This will continue campaigns in the four States, SCRL 19-79/CR 19-179/H&SA Committee STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

19-66 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

19-66 RE: C.R.

NO.
19-66 RE: C.R.

NO.

19-131/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,355 OCTOBER 02, 2015 this time targeting salt use.

Each of the States will be awarded $3,589 for development and supplies to conduct their own salt awareness campaign.

At the National level the Department will be bring people in from the four States for training and consultation regarding the salt reduction issue.
Your Committee has heard from the Department at hearings in the past regarding the importance of salt reduction in a good diet, and believes that further awareness is important.

The Committee also inquired as to where the draft legislation proposing a “sin” tax on highly processed salty foods was.

The Department of Justice stated that remained in their department due to other priority needs during this session of Congress.

This bill should be ready for transmission prior to the next session of Congress.
The Committee believes in the importance of this campaign, and supports it.

However, the Committee noted that at the next oversight for the Department it will review the performance outcomes for this and the other U.S. federally funded programs.

Your Committee on Health and Social Affairs is in accord with the intent and purpose of C.R.

No.

19-131, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto.

-2- STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

19-66 STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

19-66 RE: C.R.

NO.
19-66 RE: C.R.

NO.

19-131/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $24,355 OCTOBER 02, 2015 Respectfully submitted, /s/ Bonsiano F. Nethon, chairman /s/ Ferny S. Perman, vice chairman /s/ Tiwiter Aritos, member Florencio S. Harper, member /s/ /s/ /s/ /s/ David W. Panuelo, member /s/ /s/ Joseph J. Urusemal, member /s/ Alik L. Alik, member -3-
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STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

18-169 RE: C.R.

NO.

18-152/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $44,930 TO FUND PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES IN THE FSM.

MAY 31, 2014 The Honorable Dohsis Halbert Speaker, Eighteenth Congress Federated States of Micronesia Fourth Session, 2014 Dear Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Health and Social Affairs, to which was jointly referred C.R.

No.
No.

18-152 entitled: “A RESOLUTION APPROVING AND ACCEPTING A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $44,930 FROM THE U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION, TO FUND THE PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES IN THE FSM, INCLUDING ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF THE ASSISTANCE.”, begs leave to report as follows: The intent and purpose of this resolution are expressed in its title.

Your committee held a joint public hearing with the Committee on External Affairs on May 28, 2014.
The Secretary of the Department of Health and Social Affairs confirmed for the Committee that this grant will supplement work being done in all four states to promote health and prevent disease.

A discussion was held during the hearing where the Secretary and her staff briefed the Committee again on the large number of non-communicable disease cases in our Nation.

Much of the awareness and community work SCRL 18-190/CR 18-152/H&SA Committee STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

18-169 RE: C.R.

NO.


18-152/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $44,930 TO FUND PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES IN THE FSM.

MAY 31, 2014 being done at this time is to prevent these diseases by assisting and changing their lifestyles.

Several grants support the work in this area and this grant would be divided evenly throughout the States to further the awareness campaigns.
Your committee believes that the above-captioned grant will improve the health and well-being of our Nation’s citizens, and enable the National and State Departments of Health continue much needed programs.

Your Committee on Health and Social Affairs is in accord with the intent and purposes of C.R.

No.

18-152, and recommends its adoption in the form attached hereto.

-2- STANDING COMMITTEE REPORT NO.

18-169 RE: C.R.

NO.


18-152/H&SA SUBJECT: APPROVING A GRANT IN THE AMOUNT OF $44,930 TO FUND PREVENTIVE HEALTH SERVICES IN THE FSM.

MAY 31, 2014 Respectfully submitted, Tony H. Otto, chairman /s/ Tiwiter Aritos Tiwiter Aritos, vice chairman /s/ Peter M. Christian Peter M. Christian, member /s/ Yosiwo P. George Yosiwo P. George, member Florencio S. Harper, member /s/ David W. Panuelo David W. Panuelo, member /s/ Joseph J. Urusemal Joseph J. Urusemal, member -3-
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TWENTY-FIRST CONGRESS OF THE FEDERATED STATES OF MICRONESIA TENTH SPECIAL SESSION, 2021 C.R.

NO.

21-249 A RESOLUTION Approving an application for a federal grant in the amount of $625,000 and its submission to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services; for the FSM DHSA Mental Health Awareness Training.
1 WHEREAS, the United States, Substance Abuse and Mental Health 2 Services Agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, 3 announced a funding opportunity for the FSM DHSA Mental Health 4 Awareness Training, which the FSM National Government could avail 5 to support its program; and 6 WHEREAS, the FSM Department of Health and Social Affairs 7 developed an application for funding to fund various activities in 8 connection with the Mental Health Awareness Training; and 9 WHEREAS, in accordance with section 210(2)(c) of title 55 of 10 the FSM Code (Annotated), as amended, any first-time application 11 for foreign financial assistance shall require the approval by 12 Congress through resolution; now, therefore, 13 BE IT RESOLVED by the Twenty-First Congress of the Federated 14 States of Micronesia, Tenth Special Session, 2021, that the 15 submission of the grant application in the amount of $625,000 to 16 the United States Department of Health and Human Services, is 17 hereby approved; and 18 19 20 21 CRL 21-/PC #21-513 C.R.
NO.

21-249 1 BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that certified copies of this 2 resolution be transmitted to the President of the Federated States 3 of Micronesia, the Secretary of the Department of Justice, and 4 Department of Foreign Affairs of the Federated States of 5 Micronesia.

6 7 Date: 3/15/21 Introduced by: /s/ Florencio S. Harper Florencio S. Harper (by request) 2 of 2
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Written Representation 108 Name: Kwek Suat Yee Doctor Received: 5 Mar 2018 To the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods, I write as a concerned citizen, on behalf of myself, regarding the green paper on fake news.

I do not have any financial or other interest in this subject matter Firstly and most importantly, the green paper does not have a clear definition of the problem it seeks to tackle.
Automated bots, "hyper-biased" news, fake accounts, paid advertisements--while the green paper speaks of them under the umbrella term of "fake news", the actual content of them may range from outright lies, to partisan opinions, to uncomfortable truths.

It is important to define what exactly Deliberate Online Falsehoods should refer to, before enacting any form of legislation.
The green paper seems to concern itself largely with threats against Singapore's racial and religious harmony, and its sovereignty.

However, there is already existing legislation that could apply to such threats- -for instance, the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act, or the Sedition Act.

Before enacting new legislation, perhaps we could first review the ways that existing laws have been and could be used, and also the situations where they could not or were not applied.
This can set the ground more clearly in terms of what role the government expects any new legislation to play, and in what scenarios.

Finally, given the scope of social media, messaging platforms, and the internet, no amount of legislation will stop people from finding misinformation, or having misinformation find them.

The key is in having them judge for themselves what is false and what is true, what is biased and what is more neutral, what are good sources and what are suspect.
And that comes from education, not legislation.
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PRESS RELEASE PARLIAMENT OF SINGAPORE Singapore Parliamentarians Participate in The International Grand Committee Hearing on Fake New and Disinformation in London Three Singapore Members of Parliament will participate in the hearing of the International Grand Committee on Fake News and Disinformation, in London on 27 November 2018.
The Committee comprises members of the national Parliaments of eight countries, and is co-led by the UK House of Commons Select Committee for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (“DCMS Committee”) and the Canadian Standing Committee on Access to Information, Privacy and Ethics.
Singapore’s representatives are (i) Mr Edwin Tong, Senior Minister of State for Law and Health, and Member of Parliament for Marine Parade GRC, (ii) Ms Sun Xueling, Senior Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of National Development, and Member of Parliament for Pasir Ris- Punggol GRC and (iii) Mr Pritam Singh, Member of Parliament for Aljunied GRC.
They had also been members of the Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods which had recently presented its report to the Parliament of Singapore.

The DCMS Committee has convened an International Grand Committee to further address the important issue of fake news and disinformation.

Besides Singapore, parliamentarians from the United Kingdom, Canada, Ireland, Argentina, Brazil, Latvia and Australia are expected to be in attendance.
Singapore’s representatives will have the opportunity to join their overseas counterparts to deepen understanding and develop collective solutions to deal with fake news and disinformation.

Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods 6 The Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods was convened by the Parliament of Singapore on 10 January 2018, to examine the issue of deliberate online falsehoods and recommend how Singapore should respond.
7 The Select Committee submitted its report to Parliament on 19 September 2018.

The report concluded that the phenomenon of deliberate online falsehoods is a real and serious problem for Singapore, and recommended a multi-pronged approach to tackle deliberate online falsehoods, comprising 22 specific recommendations.
These recommendations relate to (i) nurturing an informed public, (ii) reinforcing social cohesion and trust, (iii) promoting fact- checking, (iv) disrupting online falsehoods, and (v) dealing with threats to national security and sovereignty.

The Government has accepted in-principle the Select Committee’s recommendations.

Office of the Clerk of Parliament 23 November 2018 Media Contact Faizal Ali Assistant Director, Media & Communications Email: faizal_ali@parl.gov.sg DID: 6332 6725 Mobile: 8323 1376